It is hard to guess what a Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia inermis) on average weights 152 grams (0.34 lbs).
The Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Dobsonia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.4 cm (0′ 7″). Normally, Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bats can have babies 2 times a year.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia inermis) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to the Solomon Islands.
Animals of the same family as a Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Little red flying fox with a weight of 379 grams
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 59 grams
- Masked flying fox with a weight of 130 grams
- Leschenault’s rousette with a weight of 84 grams
- Pteropus gilliardi with a weight of 403 grams
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 66 grams
- Large flying fox bringing 1.03 kilos (2.27 lbs) to the scale
- Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 43 grams
- White-winged flying fox with a weight of 343 grams
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 68 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dobsonia inermis:
- Egyptian fruit bat bringing 134 grams to the scale
- Peters’s climbing rat bringing 182 grams to the scale
- Gambian epauletted fruit bat bringing 131 grams to the scale
- Long-footed treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat bringing 125 grams to the scale
- Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat bringing 148 grams to the scale
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Echigo mole bringing 163 grams to the scale
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Buettikofer’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 135 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat:
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Speckled dasyure with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Small flying fox with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Earless water rat with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Web-footed tenrec with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern pika with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Allen’s chipmunk with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Geelvink Bay flying fox with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Round-tailed ground squirrel with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)